Irdabama

Irdabama was a highly successful historical business woman and landowner in ancient Persia. She ran her own wine and grain business at the time of Xerxes the Great.

The fortification tablets at Persepolis contain information about her wealth, workshops and hundreds of workers of both sexes. She had her own seal which meant great prestige and power.

Irdabama proved that possession of enormous property, wealth and good social standing was not limited to royal women and that everything was possible with hard work and determination. She is also well mentioned in international history books.

Irdabama was just one of the many successful and powerful business women in the ancient Persian World. Most of them had the power to use their own seals and letterheads indicating not only their autonomy and independence, but the existence of an equal social system which accepted the authority and independence of women.